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“The Latin music Renaissance man”(San Francisco Chronicle), percussionist and composer John Santos celebrates his 70th birthday with a magic evening of Latin jazz base...

Enter the mind of woodwind genius, Latin Jazz icon, and 2005 NEA Jazz Master Paquito D’Rivera. Over an improvisation that incorporates elements from jazz classics “A Night in Tunisia” “Salt Peanuts,” and “Manteca,” among others, D’Rivera shares his philosophy of improvisation, his method for impr...

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Founded in 2004, the SFJAZZ Collective is our all-star resident ensemble and composer’s workshop that represents what’s happening now in jazz.

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Enter the mind of trumpeter, composer, 2024 NEA Jazz Master, and SFJAZZ Executive Artistic Director Terence Blanchard. He speaks about his relationship with the piano, his philosophical distinction between composing and improvising, and how composition is a discipline that reveals its nature to t...

Saxophonist, composer and bandleader Kamasi Washington joins Terence Blanchard to discuss his early obsession with anime, working with Kendrick Lamar, DJ Battlecat’ss influence on his sound, and future projects. You can get tickets to see Kamasi Washington at The Golden Gate Theatre on November 15.

We bring to you another Jazz Minute. In this second episode of our three-part series exploring the history of Cuban jazz, we dive into the rumba craze of the 1940s, the cross-cultural influence of bebop, and the rise of the mambo.

Our 2025–26 Season celebrates many of Cuba’s greatest artists, i...

Singer and multi-instrumentalist Melanie Charles performs her composition “Jazz School” during her performance on September 21, 2025, part of the SFJAZZ 2025-26 Season and produced in collaboration with SMARTBOMB.

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SFJAZZ’s 2025-26 Season features a multitude of saxophone greats, with Kamasi Washington, Azar Lawrence, Branford Marsalis, Nicole McCabe, Sarah Hanahan, and David Sanchez and Chris Potter from our own SFJAZZ Collective performing over the first four months alone.

In this exclusive video, we sh...

This installment of The Breakdown presents pearls of wisdom from piano titan Kenny Barron, who counsels pianists Elena Weng and Morgan Harrison on the concepts of touch and leaving space — critical aspects of piano performance that make musicians unique and can separate a good pianist from a trul...

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